Genuine Orthodox Church of the 20th and 21st Centuries

A Time Line

1902-04
AD — Council
of Constantinople (Pan-Orthodox Council), convened and presided over
by Patriarch Joachim III, and attended by several bishops, addresses the
local Orthodox Churches of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Russia,
Greece, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, requesting each to convene a
council to decide two issues: firstly, whether steps should be taken for
the Orthodox Church to enter into dialogue and subsequent communion with
the so-called Old Catholics who had separated from the Pope in 1870
because they refused to accept the decisions of the Vatican Council
regarding papal infallibility; and secondly, if an agreement could be
reached in regards to whether or not to revise the Julian calendar or
accept the Gregorian calendar, as requested by many proponents of
revision. The Local Orthodox Churches each convene councils to discuss
the issues at hand. These councils are: the Council of Alexandria
(1902), presided over by Patriarch Photius; the Council of Jerusalem
(1903), presided over by Patriarch Damian; the Council of Moscow (1903),
presided over by Metropolitan Vladimir; the Council of Bucharest (1903),
presided over by the Metropolitan of Walachia; the council of Athens
(1903) presided over by Metropolitan Theocletus; the council of
Karlovtsi (1904), presided over by Metropolitan Innocent; and the
Council of Cetinje (1904), presided over by Metropolitan Metrophanes.
The Council of Constantinople (1904) is then resumed under the
presidency of Patriarch Joachim III, and in accordance with the
decisions of the Local Orthodox Churches it is decided that Universal
Orthodoxy is in favor of communion with the Old Catholics so as long as
the latter condemn all the Franco-Latin heresies and return to the fold
of the Orthodox Church; and that Universal Orthodoxy condemns any
attempt to revise the Julian calendar or accept the Gregorian, declaring
that all Local Orthodox Churches adhere to the patristic Orthodox Paschalion
and Menologion.

1912
AD — Council of
Constantinople, convened and presided over by Patriarch Joachim III, and
attended by several bishops, condemns the Onomatodoxi
(name-worshippers), who believed that the name of God is not only holy
and filled with the grace of God, but blasphemously prate that God's
name is rather holy in and of itself, being God Himself.

1913
AD — Council of
Constantinople, convened and presided over by Patriarch Germanus V, and
attended by several bishops, again condemns the Onomatodoxi
(name-worshippers).

1913
AD — Council of
Moscow, convened and presided over by Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow,
and attended by several bishops, condemns the Onomatodoxi
(name-worshippers).

1914-18
AD — World War
I.

1918 AD — Council of Moscow, convened and presided over by Patriarch
Tychon of Moscow, and attended by several bishops, condemns and
anathematizes Militant Atheism (Marxism, Communism) which had taken
control over Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. This council also
confirms the earlier condemnation of the Onomatodoxi
(name-worshippers).

1919
AD — Council of
Athens, convened and presided over by Metropolitan Germanus of
Demetrias, and attended by several bishops, again condemns the new
calendar.

1920
AD — Council of
Moscow, convened and presided over by Patriarch Tychon of Moscow and all
Russia, and attended by several bishops, ratifies a directive to allow
Russian dioceses outside Russia, or out of contact with the Moscow
Patriarchate due to the Bolshevik persecutions, to set up self-governing
temporary higher church administrations.

1920
AD— Council of Constantinople
(Syncretistic Synod), convened and presided over by Metropolitan
Dorotheus of Prusa, and attended by several bishops, seeks
union with the heterodox Westerners. This remarkable about-face is
mostly due to the patriarchate's fear of the spread of Communism
throughout the eastern lands, especially after the fall of the Russian
and Ottoman empires and the rise of the new Bolshevik and Kemalian
nations, the latter of which had begun a campaign of ethnically
cleansing Asia Minor of its native Roman Orthodox population and placed
the Ecumenical Patriarchate in jeopardy. Fearing the future, the council
blasphemously declares union with heterodox possible, regardless of
doctrinal differences; proposes the adoption of a new calendar common to
all denominations; and calls for the convention of so-called
pan-Christian assemblies for theological dialogue leading to the union
of all Eastern and Western confessions.

1921
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Germanus of Demetrias, and attended by
several bishops, deposes Metropolitan Meletius Metaxakis of Athens for
supporting the revolutionary government, which had caused the Venizelist
schism. However, after his deposition by the Church of Greece, Metaxakis
manages to usurp the throne of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Upon his
installment by the revolutionary government, Metaxakis recognizes the
orders of the heretical Anglican Church of England.

1922
AD— Council of Moscow, convened and
presided over by Patriarch Tychon, and attended by several bishops,
condemns and anathematizes the Renovationists (a modernist sect that
styled itself as the “Living Church” and introduced the new
calendar, shortened services, abolished the fasts, and allowed priests
to cut their hair, shave and wear secular clothing; the Renovationists
also had strong ties with the antichristian Bolshevik regime).

1923
AD— Council of Constantinople
(Syncretistic Synod), convened and presided over by Ecumenical Patriarch
Meletius IV Metaxakis (a professed 33 degree freemason, who had been
deposed by the Church of Greece), and attended by Bishop Gore of Oxford
(another freemason, representing the Anglican heretics), Metropolitans
Callinicus of Cyzicus and Basil of Nicea (a freemason representing the
Church of Cyprus, and who later usurps the Ecumenical throne in 1925),
Archbishop Alexander Nomolovsky (a freemason who had already been
suspended by the Church of Russia), Metropolitan Gabriel of
Montenegro (representing the Church of Serbia), Metropolitan James of
Dyrrachium (representing the Church of Greece), Archbishop Anastasius
Gribanovsky (representing the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, who
abandons the synod without signing any agreements), and Archimandrite
Julius Scriban (representing the Church of Romania). The Patriarchates
of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Moscow, and the Churches of
Georgia and Bulgaria are not represented. This heretical congress
proposes: to abandon the historic Orthodox Paschalion and Menologion
and adopt the new calendar; to transfer major feastdays to the nearest
Sundays in order to lessen the holidays; to allow a married episcopate,
for widowed priests to remarry and for unmarried priests to be allowed
to marry after their ordination; to shorten the Church services; to
abolish the fasts; to allow clergy to cut their hair and shave their
beards; and to allow clergy to wear secular clothing in public. The
Local Orthodox Churches do not recognize this false council, and a month
later riots break out in the streets forcing Patriarch Meletius
Metaxakis to resign from office.

1923
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Chrysostom of Athens, and attended by 4
bishops (only 2 of which agree), decides to adopt the new calendar.

1924
AD— Council of Alexandria, convened and
presided over by Patriarch Photius of Alexandria, and attended by
several bishops, condemns the decision of the Church of Greece to adopt
the new calendar and calls for a Pan-Orthodox Council. Patriarchs
Gregory of Antioch and Damian of Jerusalem and Archbishop Cyril of
Cyprus reply by also condemning the new calendar and by offering
Patriarch Photius their complete support.

1924
AD— The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the
State Church of Greece implement the change of the calendar and demand
all Local Orthodox Churches to also implement the change. Patriarch
Photius of Alexandria sharply rejects the innovation and declares that
his Patriarchate is to remain with the old calendar. His stance is
joined shortly thereafter by Patriarch Gregory of Antioch, Patriarch
Damian of Jerusalem and Archbishop Cyril of Cyprus. Patriarch Demetrius
of Serbia replies that although the Serbian Church was at one stage
willing to adopt the new calendar, it has now changed its mind and has
decided to remain with the calendar of the Holy Fathers. Patriarch
Tychon of Moscow, due to a faulty translation of Ecumenical Patriarch
Gregory’s telegraph, thinks that the entire Orthodox world has adopted
the new calendar and therefore decides to follow suit. However, upon
hearing that the majority of Local Orthodox Churches had rejected the
innovation, Patriarch Tychon does not implement the change. Metropolitan
Anthony of Kiev, and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
Abroad, condemns the introduction of the new calendar. The only Local
Orthodox Church that implements the change of the calendar is the Church
of Romania under Metropolitan Myron of Walachia. The latter is therefore
rewarded with the title of patriarch due to his blind obedience.

1926
AD— Although deposed by the Church of
Greece and forced to resign from the position of Ecumenical Patriarch,
Meletius Metaxakis usurps the Alexandrian throne and implements the
calendar change in that patriarchate. The Church of Cyprus follows in
1928.

1927
AD— Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky,
a leading Russian bishop, declares the Church to be completely loyal and
subject to the antichristian Soviet government. Several bishops
throughout Russia protest against this declaration, and are forced
underground, thereby forming the Catacomb Church of Russia. The Russian
Church Abroad also protests. Sergius' followers later form the
"Moscow Patriarchate," created by Stalin in 1943.

1928
AD— Council of
Syzran-Yeltz-Vyshny-Volochok in Russia (Nomadic Synod), convened and
presided over by Bishop Mark Novoselov, and attended at first by 3 other
bishops and 3 priests, each representing a different Catacomb Synod
(i.e. Danilovites, Josephites, Andrewites, Victorites, Yaroslavlites,
Yedinovertsy, etc). This council condemns the renovationists as well as
the sergianists as schismatics, declares them bereft of sacramental
grace, and requires their chrismation upon reception into the Church.

1928
AD— Council of Constantinople, convened
and presided over by Ecumenical Patriarch Basil III, and attended by
several bishops, transfers the dioceses of Southern Macedonia and
Western Thrace to the jurisdiction of the State Church of Greece, and
elevates Metropolitan Chrysostom of Athens to the status of Archbishop
of Athens and all Greece.

1929
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Chrysostom of Athens, and attended by 44
bishops (most of which had been transferred to this jurisdiction the
preceding year), decides to legitimize the adoption of the new calendar.
Of the 44 bishops present, 13 depart the council meeting, 27 refuse to
endorse the decree, and only 4 sign.

1932
AD— Council of Sremsky-Karlovtsy,
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Anthony of Kiev and attended
by several bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, condemns
freemasonry and declares unrepentant freemasons to be excommunicated.

1933
AD— Council of Antioch, convened and
presided over by Patriarch Alexander III, and attended by several
bishops, declares baptism necessary for the reception of Western
converts.

1933
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Chrysostom of Athens, and attended by
several bishops, condemns freemasonry and all affiliated organizations.

1935
AD— Council of Sremsky-Karlovtsy,
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Anastasius, and attended by
several bishops, condemns the heretical Sophism or Sophiology preached
in the Parisian school by Archimandrite Sergius Bulgakov (the belief
that Sophia—God’s Wisdom—is a feminine personality, the
soul of the world, thereby adding a fourth hypostasis to the Holy
Trinity, replacing God the Father with a “mother-goddess” and other
false doctrines based on Plato’s pagan philosophy, cabbalistic
teachings, and heretical Valentinian Gnosticism, which had been
condemned by the early Church). This council declares the Parisians
(under the Ecumenical Patriarchate) to be bereft of grace.

1935
AD— Council of Keratea, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Germanus of Demetrias, and attended by
Metropolitans Chrysostom of Florina, Chrysostom of Zacynth, Germanus of
the Cyclades, Christopher of Megaris, Polycarp of Diaulia and Matthew of
Bresthena, condemn the introduction of the new calendar, declare the
State Church of Greece to be in schism, and formulate regulations for
the new seven-member synod. Metropolitan Germanus of Demetrias is
installed as locum tenens of the Archdiocesan throne, 5 of the
remaining bishops are given ruling dioceses, whereas Chrysostom, the
former Metropolitan of Florina, is placed in charge of apostolic
ministry and foreign affairs, and is sent to the East to garner support
from the Patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem.

1937
AD— Council of Ust-Kut in Russia,
confirms the decisions of the 1928 Nomadic Council.

1937
AD— Metropolitans Germanus of Demetrias
and Chrysostom of Florina begin preaching the ecclesiological heresy of
Florinism. Bishops Matthew of Bresthena and Germanus of the Cyclades
sever communion, with the majority of clergy and parishes in
Peloponnesus, Crete, the Greek Islands, Mt. Athos, and officially
condemn the heresy of Florinism.

1937
AD— Miraculous appearance of the Sign
of the Holy Cross occurs on Mt. Kophynas in Crete, thereby strengthening
the Genuine Orthodox Christians in their struggle against both New
Calendarism and Florinism, for the faithful to which the miracle
occurred were under the omophorion of Bishop Matthew of Bresthena.

1938 AD —
Council of Athens, convened and presided over by Bishop Matthew of
Bresthena, and attended by Bishop Germanus of the Cyclades and several
archimandrites and fathers, condemns Florinism, as preached by
Chrysostom of Florina (the belief that those who fall under anathema and
sever themselves from the Church are supposedly only potentially but not
actually in schism, and therefore possess sacramental grace; that
supposedly only a Pan-Orthodox Council has the power to condemn heresies
that have already been condemned by numerous Pan-Orthodox Councils in
the past; and that the official church, even if in schism and under
anathema, is supposedly the “Mother Church” and “source of
grace” simply because it is recognized as such by the state
authorities).

1939-45
AD— World War II.

1945
AD— The Bulgarian Church restores
communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, adopts the new calendar and
the Metropolitan of Sofia is elevated to the rank of Patriarch.

1945
AD— Council of Athens (false council),
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Chrysostom of Florina and
attended by 2 bishops, officially endorses the false teachings of
Florinism (later known as Cyprianism). This decision is repudiated in
1950.

1948
AD— Council of Amsterdam (Syncretistic
Synod), at which the World Council of Churches (WCC) is established for
the purpose of ecumenical dialogue and joint prayer between Orthodox and
Protestants. The new calendarist Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria,
Antioch, Romania and Greece participate, along with countless Protestant
sects.

1948
AD— Council of Moscow (Sergianistic
Synod), convened by the antichristian atheist Stalin, presided over by
Patriarch Alexius of Moscow, and attended by representatives of the
Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Russia, Georgia,
Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Czechoslovakia and Poland,
praises Stalin and endorses a pro-communist political stance and
ironically condemns ecumenism, purely for political reasons, despite the
fact that the Churches represented at this council are ecumenistic, and
become even more deeply involved in ecumenism after this council's
resolution.

1948
AD— Council of Chirchik in Russia,
convened and presided over by Archbishop Theodore, and attended by 13
bishops representing each of the Catacomb synods, condemns the
Sergianistic false council of 1948, and declares Metropolitan Anastasius
of the Russian Church Abroad to be the true leader of the Russian
Orthodox Church.

1949
AD— Bishop Matthew of Bresthena is
elected Archbishop of Athens and President of the Holy Synod.

1949
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Matthew of Athens, and attended by 4 bishops
and several archimandrites and fathers, condemns freemasonry.

1950
AD— Metropolitan Matthew of Athens
reposes in the Lord, and Bishop Demetrius of Thessalonica becomes acting
President of the Holy Synod.

1950
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Chrysostom of Florina, and attended by 3
bishops, repudiates Florinism and apologizes for causing a schism. In
the next year 1 Florinite bishop dies and the remaining 3 resign from
the episcopate. Of those that resign, 2 join the new calendarists,
leaving Chrysostom of Florina alone until he dies in 1955, leaving no
successors, thus bringing the Florinite hierarchy to an end.

1952-56
AD— Nine new bishops are consecrated
for the Genuine Orthodox Church.

1956
AD— Council of Slatioara in Moldavia,
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Galaction, and attended by 3
bishops and several archimandrites and fathers, condemns the
introduction of the new calendar, declares the new calendarists to be
schismatic, and formally establishes the Holy Synod of the Genuine
Orthodox Church of Romania.

1957
AD— Bishop Agathangelus of Tenus is
elected Archbishop of Athens and President of the Holy Synod.

1960
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Agathangelus of Athens, and attended by
several bishops, deposes the disobedient archimandrites Acacius Pappas
(the elder), Acacius Pappas (the younger), Auxentius Pastras and several
other monks for canonical infractions. Archbishop Matthew had ordained
these archimandrites, but because he refused to consecrate them to the
episcopacy, they departed and took the lead of the bishopless Florinite
flock. These deposed monks later succeed in obtaining consecrations from
a new calendarist Romanian bishop and a Russian bishop acting without
the knowledge or permission of his Synod, thereby forming the
“Acacian” schism, which eventually splinters into a bewilderment of
factions both in Greece and abroad.

Holy Synod
under Archbishop Agathangelus of Athens

1961-63
AD— Council of Rhodes (Syncretistic
Synod), convened and presided over by Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras,
and attended by several bishops representing each of the official Local
Orthodox Churches, agrees to enter into ecumenical dialogue with the
Papists.

1963
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Agathangelus, and attended by several
bishops, condemns and anathematizes the heretical Russellites, otherwise
known as so-called “witnesses of Jehovah,” who follow Arianism,
Chiliasm, Gnosticism and countless other heresies already condemned by
the early Church.

1963
AD— Council of Grayslake in Illinois,
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Dionysius Milivojevic, and
attended by several fathers, severs communion with Patriarch Germanus of
Serbia due to the latter’s involvement with the antichristian
communist government of Yugoslavia, thereby forming the Free Serbian
Orthodox Church in the Diaspora.

1963-65
AD— Council of Vatican (Syncretistic
Synod), convened and presided over at first by Pope John XXIII (a
Rosicrucian Freemason) and later by Pope Paul VI (another Freemason),
and attended by several cardinals and bishops, declares the Eastern
Orthodox Churches and the Anglican Church of England to possess the
grace of the priesthood and apostolic succession, and encourages
ecumenical dialogue and joint prayers with the Orthodox and Protestants.
In addition to this, the false religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam
and Judaism are declared to possess some form of truth, and Catholics
are called upon to acquire a better understanding of these non-Christian
confessions. At the end of the council, Pope Paul VI takes off his papal
miter (traditionally worn by the Roman popes as a sign of authority) and
places it upon the altar. From that day forward, the Roman popes no
longer wear the papal miter, but rather a normal tiara common to all
Latin bishops.

1965
AD— Council of Jerusalem (Syncretistic
Synod), convened and presided over by Pope Paul VI, and attended by
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, and several Franco-Latin and Orthodox
bishops, lift the anathemas of 1054 regardless of doctrinal differences.
The two faiths are theoretically united and joint prayers commence. The
Genuine Orthodox protest.

1967
AD— Archbishop Agathangelus of Athens
reposes and Bishop Andrew of Patras becomes acting President of the Holy
Synod.

1968
AD— Council of Uppsala (Syncretistic
Synod - WCC), at which the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant delegations
blasphemously declare that none of them have known the truth, and pray
for “truth” to be found in the future as a product of their
ecumenical dialogue.

1972
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Callistus, and attended by several bishops
of the Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece and of the Acacian synod, in
order to heal the schism, but to no avail. The Acacians under Auxentius
depart the council.

1972
AD— Seven new bishops are consecrated
for the Genuine Orthodox Church, and Bishop Andrew of Patras is elected
Archbishop of Athens and President of the Holy Synod.

1974
AD— Council of New York, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Philaret, and attended by several bishops
of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, as well as 2 bishops representing
the Genuine Orthodox Churches of Greece and Cyprus. This council states
that the introduction of the new calendar caused a schism and declares
the validity of new calendarist sacraments to be “in doubt.” This
council also declares the Sergianist Moscow Patriarchate to be in schism
and with doubtful mysteries. Finally, the 1667 ban on the Old Russian
rite is lifted, preparing the way for Old Believers to join the Genuine
Orthodox Church.

1974
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Auxentius, and attended by 8 Acacian
bishops, confirms the Athenian councils of 1935 and 1950, declaring the
new calendarists to be fully schismatical and therefore void of
sacramental grace.

1978
AD— Council of New York, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Philaret, and attended by several bishops,
severs communion with the Acacian synod due to the canonical infractions
of Archbishop Auxentius and other Acacian bishops.

1981
AD— Council of Grayslake in Illinois,
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Irenaeus of the Free Serbian
Orthodox Church, and attended by several bishops, condemns ecumenism and
enters into communion with the Acacians under Archbishop Auxentius.

1983
AD— Council of New York, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Philaret, and attended by 13 bishops,
condemns ecumenism and the heretical branch theory, and anathematizes
those who knowingly remain in communion with ecumenist heretics.

1985
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Auxentius, and attended by 16 Acacian
bishops, unites the Auxentian, Callistite and Gerontian factions in
which the Acacians were up until this time divided, and confirms the
Athenian councils of 1935, 1950 and 1974, declaring the new calendarists
to be fully schismatic and bereft of grace.

1986
AD— Council of Assisi (Syncretistic
Synod), convened and presided over by Pope John Paul II, and attended by
several new calendarist and ecumenist "Orthodox," participate
in joint prayer with Protestants and representatives of various
non-Christian religions.

1990
AD— Council of Barr (Syncretistic Synod
- WCC), attended by so-called "Orthodox," Catholic and
Protestant delegations, "affirms the need to move beyond a theology
which confines salvation to the explicit personal commitment to Jesus
Christ," thereby declaring that faith in Christ is not necessary,
and that one can be saved by other (non-Christian) means.

1991
AD— Council of Damascus (Syncretistic
Synod), convened and presided over by Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch,
and attended by the heretical Monophysite Jacobite Syrian Patriarch
Zakka. The two patriarchs enter into full communion and declare their
patriarchates to be "sister churches" despite the
Christological differences.

1991
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Archbishop Andrew, and attended by several bishops,
adopts the teachings of St. Nicodemus of Athos in regards to permitting
veneration of the western Holy Trinity icon in order to prevent scandals
among the faithful.

1991
AD— Council of Grayslake in Illinois
(false council), convened and presided over by Metropolitan Irenaeus of
the Free Serbian Orthodox Church, and attended by several bishops,
declares its submission to the Sergianistic, ecumenistic Patriarchate of
Serbia.

1992
AD— Council of Athens (false council),
convened and presided over by Archbishop Andrew, and attended by several
bishops, condemns those who prefer the traditional Orthodox icon of the
Hospitality of Abraham as a symbol of the Holy Trinity rather than the
western- style Holy Trinity icon, despite the fact that the latter icon
had been forbidden by the Pan-Orthodox Council of 1667 and the
Constantinopolitan Council of 1780. The council is placed under house
arrest during its session; the bishops who desire to depart are not
permitted to do so until signing the council’s decrees. Archbishop
Andrew of Greece, Metropolitan Epiphanius of Cyprus, Metropolitan
Nicholas of Piraeus, Metropolitan Pachomius of Argolis and the synodical
secretary, Archimandrite Kirykos, repudiate their signatures shortly
after the council. The decisions of this council are never published in
the official periodical of the Synod, but they are uncanonically
distributed by other means.

1993
AD— Council of Balamand (Syncretistic
Synod), attended by representatives of the "Orthodox" Churches
of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Russia, Romania, Cyprus, Poland,
Albania and Finland, declare the so-called Roman Catholics to be a
"sister church."

1994
AD— Council of Jerusalem, convened and
presided over by Patriarch Diodorus, and attended by several bishops,
condemns ecumenism and syncretism, especially in regards to the union of
the Patriarchate of Antioch with the Monophysites and the Balamand
agreement of Eucharistic unity with the Franco-Latin Papists.

1994
AD— Council of New York (false
council), convened and presided over by Metropolitan Vitaly, and
attended by several bishops, endorses Florinism (the belief that the
modernists, Sergianists and ecumenists are the “Mother Church” and
possess sacramental grace) and enters into Eucharistic communion with
the Cyprianites (an Acacian faction that confesses Florinism). The Synod
of Metropolitan Vitaly repudiates this resolution in 2001.

1997
AD— Council of Athens (false council),
convened and presided over by Metropolitan Gregory of Messenia, and
attended by 4 bishops, anathematizes those who refer to the western-
style Holy Trinity icon as untraditional or unorthodox. In so doing,
this council condemns countless saints and fathers. Within 5 years, 3 of
the bishops that attended this false council die and 1 departs the
synod, leaving Metropolitan Gregory of Messenia alone.

2000
AD— Council of New York (false
council), convened and presided over by Metropolitan Vitaly, and
attended by several bishops, declares its willingness to enter into
agreements with and eventually submit to the Sergianistic and
ecumenistic Moscow Patriarchate.

2001
AD— Council of Mansonville, convened
and presided over by Metropolitan Vitaly, and attended by 3 bishops,
declares it has no Eucharistic communion with the Moscow and Belgrade
Patriarchates; repudiates the 1994 communion with the Cyprianites;
confirms the 1983 anathema against ecumenism; and condemns the Laurites
(those who accept the false council of 2000 and are paving their way
towards union with the ecumenists).

2002
AD— Council of Mansonville, convened
and presided over by Metropolitan Vitaly, and attended by 4 bishops,
thoroughly condemns the heresy of Florinism (Cyprianism).

2002
AD— Council of Athens (false council),
convened and presided over by Archbishop Andrew of Athens, and attended
by 4 bishops. Due to external influence, and at the instigation of
internal conspirators within the Synod, Archbishop Andrew resigns from
office. Although several bishops, clergy and faithful throughout Greece
protest against the unlawful resignation, Metropolitan Nicholas of
Piraeus is uncanonically elected Archbishop.

2003
AD— Council of Larisa, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Panaretus of Larisa, and attended by
Metropolitans Kirykos of Mesogaias and Tarasius of Berrea officially
rejects the unlawful resignation of Archbishop Andrew and the
uncanonical election and enthronement of Metropolitan Nicholas of
Piraeus as Archbishop of Athens.

2004
AD— Metropolitans Panaretus of Larisa,
Gorgonius of Citrus and Epiphanius of Citium repose in the Lord. This is
shortly followed, in the next year, by the blessed repose of Archbishop
Andrew of Athens, who had been unlawfully retired since 2002.

2006
AD— Following the repose of
Metropolitan Vitaly, the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile breaks into a
number of factions. Various clergy and faithful once belonging to the
Russian Orthodox Church in Exile begin petitioning the Genuine Orthodox
Church to receive them into communion.

2006
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Kirykos of Mesogaias, calls all to unity
for the struggle against the Pan-heresy of Ecumenism and the
crypto-ecumenism within Traditionalist circles, which attempts to
destroy the Church from within. Metropolitan Kirykos asks all Genuine
Orthodox Christians to reject the sly crypto-ecumenism, and not allow it
to penetrate into the Church.

2007
AD— The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
restores communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, thereby becoming a
fully-recognized member of blasphemous "World Orthodoxy."

2007
AD— Council of Limasol, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Kirykos of Mesogaias, and attended by
Genuine Orthodox clergy, restores communion between the Genuine Orthodox
Churches of Greece and Russia with the Genuine Orthodox Churches of
Cyprus and Africa.

2008
AD— Council of Bacau, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Kirykos of Mesogaias, and attended by
Genuine Orthodox clergy, restores communion between the Genuine Orthodox
Churches of Greece, Africa, Russia and Cyprus with the Genuine Orthodox
Church of Romania.

Holy
Pan-Orthodox Council under Metropolitan Cerycus of Mesogaea

2008
AD— Council of Athens, convened and
presided over by Metropolitan Kirykos
of Mesogaias, and attended by
hierarchs and clergy representing Greece, Africa, Russia, Cyprus and
Romania, enters into theological dialogue with the Novozybkov Old Rite
Synod of Russia under Patriarch Alexander of Moscow.